This event is for women and marginalised genders.
Join Key of She for this 2.5-hour workshop designed to get people comfortable with the basics of improvised music. Workshops are capped at 12–15 people to ensure a nice mixture of different groups, and you get the support you need.
You don't need to know music theory, read music, or even play your instrument to a high standard in order to improvise! Just come with a curious and open-mind, and be very willing to make noise and support other people's noise-making.
There will be a short break in the middle of the workshop, and the venue has a café available for refreshments (and you're welcome to bring your own).
A drum kit, keyboard, and some mics will be provided. Guitars can be amplified (either PA or small amplifier). Otherwise, please bring your instrument. Key of She have a budget for anyone local who cannot afford to transport their instrument in order to access the workshops. Please email keyofshesheffield@gmail.com if you'd like to access this.
Theatre Deli is wheelchair accessible, with parking just outside the building entrance.
All Key of She events are free, thanks to funding, but if you can donate, this enables them to keep getting funding and creating more opportunities. Thank you.
Facilitator: Emma Johnson
Award winning saxophonist and composer Emma Johnson is a Leeds based musician and the bandleader of Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat.
Her wide ranging career has taken her from being hailed as 'one of the most refreshingly imaginative and perfectly configured acts in contemporary Jazz' for her writing, recording and live performances with Gravy Boat all the way to heading up main stages at festivals across the UK and hitting the recording studio with a variety of bands in her work as an arranger and horn section leader. A prolific composer, Johnson has completed commissions for Lancaster Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival and is currently undertaking a new large ensemble composition for later in the year.
Johnson's love for jazz and horn section playing has most recently been tied together in her work with Parliamentary Jazz Award winners Ubunye and with more collaborations, writing projects and performances in store, 2024 is looking like another exciting step in her career.